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I denounce the Fugitive Slave law for all these qualities.
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Mann openly condemns the Fugitive Slave Law for its numerous injustices and moral failings.
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The general system of slaveholding farmers and planters, in all times and places, has been, and now is, and ever will be, to cultivate much land, badly, for present gain,--in short, to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
The north comes to the south, cuts their timber, carries it home, manufactures it, and then brings it back, wrought into a hundred different forms, to be sold to those who would see it rot before their eyes.
Packed and stowed like merchandise between unventilated decks, so close that the tempest without could not ruffle the pestilential air within, the voyage was begun.
Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
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